做网络成功的60句话收藏

1、一个人在网络上发展,分为三阶段:广告页阶段,产品销售阶段,正规站阶段,其中前两阶段的成功具有可复制性。

  2、做网络,不一定就要懂技术,技术是最次要的一个环节,自己做不了的事情,找别人来完成。

  3、交际是网络创业成功的捷径,也是大部分行业创业成功的法宝。

  4、网络和现实一样,信任实力,真正网络上的高手,一般都是年龄35岁以上的。

  5、小钱靠技巧,中钱靠智商,大钱靠情商。

  6、广告页到产品销售阶段,需要1-3年的时间,产品销售阶段(竞价)转到正规站阶段,至少需要2年的时间,一个人从开始接触网瑞脑消金兽赚到拥有自己的正规站,至少需要5年的时间,欲速则不达。

  7、一个普通的团队的整体实力,要远超越一个完美的天才的所有。

  8、在投资上节约的人,是最会浪费的人,该花的钱,一定要花,在现实中,在网络中,没有物美价廉的东西,这就是为什么万网的空间是最贵的,但是却是卖的最好的原因。

  9、用最简单的程序来完成最复杂的要求,就是最完美的网站。

  10、广告的最高境界,就是根本就意识不到,这是一个广告。

  11、只要对方比我们收入高,那么我们就要把他运营成为我们的朋友,把他的成功复制到手。

  12、读万卷书,不如行千里路,行千里路,不如阅百人,通过经营一个站,应该努力的去结交喜欢你的站的访客为你的朋友。

  13、在网络上,低调而挣钱,是最佳的网络处世手法。

  14、我今年25岁,看一个10岁天才的孩子的话,觉得他很幼稚,同样一个45岁的人,看我的行为,一样能够看出我的幼稚,我玩一个10岁的孩子,玩的他不知道东南西北,同样,45岁的朋友玩我,也会玩的我不知道东南西北,所以人与人之间最大的差距,就在年龄和经验上。所以身边一定要有一些比自己大20岁以上的朋友。

  15、做流量,不一定就要自己去做,应该学会利用可复制的高价资源去换取站友们的劳动,这就是全民皆赚。

  16、真正的网络高手,都看起来像新手,真正的新手,在群上往往表现的像老手。

  17、一个团队的年龄段可以拉大,但是收入层次一定不要拉的太大。

  18、别人把自己的商业机密告诉你,只有两个原因,一是你是他的朋友,二是你是他的潜在投资者。

  19、一个群,要想有团结力,要想由一个群变成一个团队,必须要做到的就是高门槛,而且是统一的门槛。

  20、被朋友利用,那说明你没有做事的原则,朋友之间绝对不能有经济来往,朋友不会成为你的客户,但是客户有可能成为你的朋友。

  21、如果你组建了团队,而你又不敢去淘汰的糟粕的话,说明你本身就是一个胆怯的人。

  22、正常情况下,一个人从0日收入到500元/天的收入,至少也要经历1年的学习时间。

  23、一个领佳节又重阳导者,一个管理者,最应该避讳的就是与自己团队里的女性朋友的亲密接触,哪怕是狼,在团队面前,也要披上羊皮,否则很快就将失去自己的色彩。

  24、一个人,到了30岁,在实业上还没有起色,想通过网络来获得高收入,那么我可以答复你,可能性为0,因为收入决定于一个人的情商,无论实业,还是网络行业,都是通用的。是金子,在哪里都发光,换句话说,是木头,到哪里都发不了光的。

  25、关键词排名第一的两种方式:一是SEO,二是创造独立搜索源,独立搜索源是目前最佳的广告形式。

  27、三等软文带网址,二等软文带QQ,一等软文被置顶。

  28、每10个做网瑞脑消金兽赚的人,就有5个人能够达到500元/天以上的收入,就有1个能够达到1000元/天的收入,就有1/1000个人能够做到一年几百万的利润,但是有50%的人是发展不起来的,你有50%的可能是发展不起来的,你只有千分之一的可能会成为网络高手。

  30、把简单的招式练的炉火纯青就是绝招。

  31、对你真正发自内心好的人,不是口口声声赞美你的人,也不是口口声声喊你哥哥或者弟弟的人,而是那些在背后默默的支持着的人,君子之交淡如水,同样比油还浓的交情,肯定不是君子。

  32、如果你和我说,你的QQ有个牛人,他说一天能挣几万块,那么我可以告诉你,你找错人了,因为如果他连你的QQ的信息都回复的话,那么说明他要回复更多的和你一样傻的人的信息,那么他一天除了聊QQ外基本上不做事,这不是做事人的做事态度,所以判断一个人是不是高手,一个粗略的判断方法,那就是你加他 QQ,他和不和你聊天。

  33、如果一个人,主动的要推销,要带你做网络,那么你可以放弃选择他为老师,因为真正的高手,都是没有时间带学生的,带学生的,没有高手。

  34、如果你小于20岁,你在网络上骂街,那么我佩服你的年轻,如果你是20-30岁之间在骂街,那么我怀疑你的无聊,如果你大于30岁,那么我怀疑的不是你的无聊,而是怀疑你的智商和神经。

  35、智者不骂,骂者不智,要想去惩罚一个人,最好的办法就是鼓励他,而不是去反对他,制止他,借用一句话“我惯着他”。

  36、第三页的出现,是网络软件推介以及点击类广告的革莫道不消魂命,做到了彻底的诱惑彻底的符合规则。

  37、如果你想赚钱,那么你应该在第一年,全心的去学习,如果你想不懂网络的前提下就操作项目,那么一年后,你还是菜鸟,连自己都养活不了。但是往往是99%的人都是直接找项目,不去学习。

  38、群管理的法宝,就是让群上的每一个人都把这里当家,让他们把这里当家的法宝就是把他们每天都介绍一遍,让他们熟悉彼此的每一个群友,感觉和现实中的朋友一样。

  39、如果一个群,你花了100元就可以进去,那么说明这个群的价值,低于100元,因为群主对你的重视程度,就是100块钱的。

  40、南方人智商高,一方面可能是网络精英,一方面可能是网络大盗,北方人豪爽,一方面是怒气冲天,一方面是两肋插刀,山东人喜欢礼尚往来,但是在生意场上,礼尚往来是破坏规矩的最大的隐患。

  41、在商界,没有永远的客户,只有永恒的利益,一旦你的团队没有了新的知识,新的动力,那么也就是你的团队宣布结束的时刻。

  42、当你的团队中或者你的圈子中有人出了问题,或者是经济纠纷或者是其他问题,别人来攻击你的时候,你应该保持沉默,而且不要去掺合,去解释,因为一杯水,你要想让他澄清,最好的办法就是让它静止下来,而不是去摇晃它。

  43、当你一天收入50元的时候,你会说你一天收入500元了,当你一天收入500元的时候,你说你基本上没收入。

  44、当有人决定让你和被批斗的地主一样,****街头的时候,你最佳的回击方式是选择沉默,因为你对他最大的打击,就是根本就没把他当回事。

  45、网络和现实一样, 不是暴利,99%的网站的日收入不会超过50元人民币,注意是99%

  46、搞网站的年轻人,总是把自己吹的神乎其乎,我就做个比喻,你就知道你的真实能量了。你懂技术是不错,建筑工人也懂技术,那么是建筑工人的收入高呢,还是搞房产运营的收入高呢?

  47、你应该提防每一个奉承你的人,因为他是一个善于评头论足的人,今天评你的头,后天就论你的足。

  48、你自己的想一下,其实你的网络时间,60%的都浪费在了QQ聊天上了。

  49、一个人在网络上的素质,绝对正比于他的学历和年龄。

  50、如果你准备与一个人谈生意,千万不要男扮女装,因为一旦成交后,你在他心中永远对是一个另类,因为他觉得你这个人太不实在了,记住,不要去装女的。做网络的最高境界,就是实事求是。

  51、给对方打电话前,要先短信预约。

  52、走到一个团队,首先想到的就是要做这个团队的老大,要把这个团队上能够对自己有利的人全部拉为自己的人,当自己离开这个团队的时候,也就是这个团队宣布属于自己的时候。

  53、你问我中创值不值做,那么我给你的答案就是,只要符合两个条件的事业,就值得你去做,一是合法,二是暴利。

  54、如果你比别人晚1年半入群,而想马上跟上节奏,那么你就问一下自己,你在上学的时候,是不是从小学直接上的高一。所以,你最应该做的不是去挣钱,而是花更多的时间去补习过去的功课。

  55、如果你收100元入你的群,那么来的都是25岁以下的,如果你收1000元,那么进你的群的都是创业失败的中年人,如果你收5000元入群,那么来的都是在实业上做的不错的,如果你收1万元入群,那么他们可能是看中的是你的团队和朋友圈子。

  56、一个方法,如果我1万元卖给你,你能收入5万元,如果我1000元卖给你,你有可能做起来,如果我免费告诉你的,那么你肯定做不起来。所以为了让你挣到钱,我有这个责任来收你的钱。

  57、一个人,生活的质量如何,不看他的收入,而是看他是否活的快乐,活的开心,我说钟情姐是群上最笨的一个,但是我觉得她反过来是活的最开心的一个,因为老朋友们都喜欢她,她的流量网站等都是老朋友们帮他做的。

  58、一款可以产生流量收入的软件,只要你可以轻松的买到了,那么就说明没有价值了,原因就是连你都可以买到了,真正的暴利,都掌握在少数人手里。

  59、不要指望别人对你忠诚一辈子,因为你仅仅代表了一个层次,当对方发展的高于你这个层次或者低于这个层次的时候,他就脱离了你这个团队。

  60、在一个团队里也好,在一个公司里也好,在一个企业里也好,在一个小组里也好,与领头羊搞好关系,是你能够在这里工作的很愉快的前提,当然也是你事业有所突破的前提。

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百度一下,很汗

grass mud horse

 

很河蟹很强大,这就是中国的互联网 ……

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页面表达原则&常用的页面表达方式

页面表达原则:
1. 更少的信息量更好。
2. 结构化更易于理解。
3. 信息的表达应该清楚、明确、直接。
4. 操作可识别。
5. 操作前,结果可预知。
6. 操作时,操作有反馈。
7. 操作后,操作可撤销。
8. 让用户知道身处何地。
9. 避免内容看上去象广告。
10. 不提供多余的功能。
11. 相同的功能,在不同的页面中应保持一致性。
12. 措辞统一。

常用的页面表达方式:
1. 从左到右,从上到下。
2. 大字更突出。
3. 图形更吸引人。
4. 动画会被误认为是广告。
5. 内容逻辑:并列关系;从属关系。

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TweetDeck一款不错的twitter的desktop 软件

tweetdeck

首先Google了一下,deck这个单词有覆盖物和新闻副标题的意思,看来这款软件野心还真的不小~

 tweetdeck是一款利用twitter的api而进行的二次开发的桌面软件。adobe air为它提供了快捷、便利的运营环境。和之前我常用的twhirl是同类的产品。相比较而言,它的优点在哪呢?

 

login-in.bmp

Login in SIZE很大,视觉焦点完全在这个面板里面。输入id和psw

1.bmp

这是3columns,很清楚,我的好友、收到的回复、DM短信。简单明了,不喜欢多栏可以点击按钮缩成1栏。

其实最大的优点和特色在于2:1个是支持分组,不过是在这款软件上面:

group1.bmp

根据自己的设定去自动以分组名,并筛选好友进入分组(类似QQ分组)。

2.支持图片分享

tese.bmp

“TwitPic”对了,就是这个,点击可以上传桌面上的图片到tweetdeck服务器,从而同步在twitter上分享了。

3.多选的short url方案

集大成者,提供给用户更多的选择,更加个性化。以前有twitter默认的是tinyurl,单调而乏味,看看tweetdeck的:

shorturl.bmp

是很多元吧。。也大开眼见了。(PS:这类的shorturl服务商是“坐收渔利”了,可以通过这项服务,收集大量的用户的网址信息,完全适合情报工作~~)

  :?  不过很遗憾的是,目前Tweetdeck不支持中文哦!希望它能尽早的支持吧~

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一票难求--向中国铁路致敬~

一票难求

听说12年中国铁路才能根本性改观?看来今年的国家3万亿的投资也会对未来几年的中国交通起到至关重要的作用。

今年春节,希望大家都能回家过好年。既然广东是电话订票,希望大家多打多尝试,早点能订到票!

P一个:今天能幸运能从QY那里拿到票,一种莫名的兴奋,一种莫名的感伤。。。。。因为我又要去武汉了。。。。。。。。。

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Why You Only Need to Test With 5 Users

Some people think that usability is very costly and complex and that user tests should be reserved for the rare web design project with a huge budget and a lavish time schedule. Not true. Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.In earlier research, Tom Landauer and I showed that the number of usability problems found in a usability test with n users is:

N(1-(1-L)n)

where N is the total number of usability problems in the design and L is the proportion of usability problems discovered while testing a single user. The typical value of L is 31%, averaged across a large number of projects we studied. Plotting the curve for L=31% gives the following result:

Increase in proportion of usability problems found as a function of number of users tested

The most striking truth of the curve is that zero users give zero insights.

As soon as you collect data from a single test user, your insights shoot up and you have already learned almost a third of all there is to know about the usability of the design. The difference between zero and even a little bit of data is astounding.

When you test the second user, you will discover that this person does some of the same things as the first user, so there is some overlap in what you learn. People are definitely different, so there will also be something new that the second user does that you did not observe with the first user. So the second user adds some amount of new insight, but not nearly as much as the first user did.

The third user will do many things that you already observed with the first user or with the second user and even some things that you have already seen twice. Plus, of course, the third user will generate a small amount of new data, even if not as much as the first and the second user did.

As you add more and more users, you learn less and less because you will keep seeing the same things again and again. There is no real need to keep observing the same thing multiple times, and you will be very motivated to go back to the drawing board and redesign the site to eliminate the usability problems.

After the fifth user, you are wasting your time by observing the same findings repeatedly but not learning much new.

Iterative Design

The curve clearly shows that you need to test with at least 15 users to discover all the usability problems in the design. So why do I recommend testing with a much smaller number of users?The main reason is that it is better to distribute your budget for user testing across many small tests instead of blowing everything on a single, elaborate study. Let us say that you do have the funding to recruit 15 representative customers and have them test your design. Great. Spend this budget on three tests with 5 users each!

You want to run multiple tests because the real goal of usability engineering is to improve the design and not just to document its weaknesses. After the first study with 5 users has found 85% of the usability problems, you will want to fix these problems in a redesign.

After creating the new design, you need to test again. Even though I said that the redesign should "fix" the problems found in the first study, the truth is that you think that the new design overcomes the problems. But since nobody can design the perfect user interface, there is no guarantee that the new design does in fact fix the problems. A second test will discover whether the fixes worked or whether they didn't. Also, in introducing a new design, there is always the risk of introducing a new usability problem, even if the old one did get fixed.

Also, the second test with 5 users will discover most of the remaining 15% of the original usability problems that were not found in the first test. (There will still be 2% of the original problems left - they will have to wait until the third test to be identified.)

Finally, the second test will be able to probe deeper into the usability of the fundamental structure of the site, assessing issues like information architecture, task flow, and match with user needs. These important issues are often obscured in initial studies where the users are stumped by stupid surface-level usability problems that prevent them from really digging into the site.

So the second test will both serve as quality assurance of the outcome of the first study and help provide deeper insights as well. The second test will always lead to a new (but smaller) list of usability problems to fix in a redesign. And the same insight applies to this redesign: not all the fixes will work; some deeper issues will be uncovered after cleaning up the interface. Thus, a third test is needed as well.

The ultimate user experience is improved much more by three tests with 5 users than by a single test with 15 users.

Why Not Test With a Single User?

You might think that fifteen tests with a single user would be even better than three tests with 5 users. The curve does show that we learn much more from the first user than from any subsequent users, so why keep going? Two reasons:

  • There is always a risk of being misled by the spurious behavior of a single person who may perform certain actions by accident or in an unrepresentative manner. Even three users are enough to get an idea of the diversity in user behavior and insight into what's unique and what can be generalized.
  • The cost-benefit analysis of user testing provides the optimal ratio around three or five users, depending on the style of testing. There is always a fixed initial cost associated with planning and running a test: it is better to depreciate this start-up cost across the findings from multiple users.

When To Test More Users

You need to test additional users when a website has several highly distinct groups of users. The formula only holds for comparable users who will be using the site in fairly similar ways.If, for example, you have a site that will be used by both children and parents, then the two groups of users will have sufficiently different behavior that it becomes necessary to test with people from both groups. The same would be true for a system aimed at connecting purchasing agents with sales staff.

Even when the groups of users are very different, there will still be great similarities between the observations from the two groups. All the users are human, after all. Also, many of the usability problems are related to the fundamental way people interact with the Web and the influence from other sites on user behavior.

In testing multiple groups of disparate users, you don't need to include as many members of each group as you would in a single test of a single group of users. The overlap between observations will ensure a better outcome from testing a smaller number of people in each group. I recommend:

  • 3-4 users from each category if testing two groups of users
  • 3 users from each category if testing three or more groups of users (you always want at least 3 users to ensure that you have covered the diversity of behavior within the group)

Reference

Nielsen, Jakob, and Landauer, Thomas K.: "A mathematical model of the finding of usability problems," Proceedings of ACM INTERCHI'93 Conference (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24-29 April 1993), pp. 206-213.

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进化与互联网

进化论

在网上Goolge到了这张很经典的图。反映的相当真实。我们的先辈们无法想象,现如今数以万计的人依靠着computer维持生计!而不是使传统的劳动工具了。随着时代的发展和科技的进步,copmuter的变种也越来越多,如laptop、车载设备、家庭it应用、open-source&phone……

也许下一步的人类进化不是like a dog 一样坐在电脑桌面前工作了,而被问“hi!你电脑边上是什么东东 ”的日常用语也将成为历史。人们渐习惯用手持micro-computer或者利用各种e-machine在户外和everywhere else 工作了。

information communication 下一个十年是怎么样?你我共同见证!  8O  

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马云的黑色幽默

“今天中午我在外面吃饭,餐厅的老板问我,你预计危机明年会结束吗?我说明年下半年就可以了。他说明年下半年就可以?我说明年下半年你适应了。”

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网络企业学习猪坚强之注意事项(转)

又看到一位商界领袖提起猪坚强。 《第一财经日报》报道,面对当下经济危机,对于一些企业的生存还是死亡问题,马云说了一句话:“连‘猪坚强’都能活,你为什么不可以?” 之前,有印象的一件事,是潘石屹等地产领袖提到开发商要学习猪坚强,那是在08年国家加大对房地产的宏观调控力度的背景下,房地产商对未来的一种忧虑。 一场巨大的自然灾难,一头埋在废墟里存活36天的猪一下子成为名猪,被誉为“猪坚强”,猪坚强于是成为一种象征,残酷条件下顽强生存的象征。于是乎,成都建川博物馆将其收养,网络上出现了自诩为励志歌曲的《猪坚强》,甚至有朱姓家长给孩子起名朱坚强。 于是,在国家对房地产进行调控时,猪坚强被潘石屹等房地产企业家拿来作为学习榜样,于是,在当前席卷全球的经济危机中,猪坚强又被马云这样的商业领袖拿来作为鼓舞斗志的案例。 猪坚强能够在废墟下存活36天,的确是一个奇迹,这个奇迹发生的原因,对于当下处于经济危机中的企业来说,确有值得学习的地方。但是,笔者认为,企业学习猪坚强,尤其是互联网企业,必须要弄清楚,学什么,怎么学以及能否学得来,不妨对照猪坚强顽强生存36天的原因,分析一下这些问题。 首先,客观方面。据有关专家分析,猪坚强埋在废墟下36天仍然存活,四个方面的客观条件,是主要因素。 (一)半米生存空间。猪圈垮塌后阁楼的木板砸下来,但在离地半米高的地方,被没有倒的砖墙支撑着,猪坚强因此没有受到明显伤害,而身长超过1米的猪被压在半米高的空间内,这又限制了它的活动,使它只能在地上趴着,减少了能量消耗。所以,这半米生存空间,对猪坚强的奇迹发生十分重要,而且这半米空间有两个特性,一是猪坚强恰好能够容身,但不能过多活动;二是猪坚强独享,没有其他猪的竞争。那么,在当前经济危机下,我们的企业是否有这样不存在生存竞争的独享市场空间呢?有还是没有,很关键,如果有这样的排他性市场空间,哪么很幸运,如果没有,就必须努力创造和争取。 (二)相对充足的脂肪。震前猪坚强体重近150公斤,从废墟中出来后,体重只有50多公斤,瘦掉的近100公斤体重中,有相对大一部分是作为生存能量消耗掉的脂肪,它通过消耗自身蓄积的能量维持着生命。对于企业来说,在当前的危机之中,必须理性分析自己的现金储备、收支情况等,把经济寒冬的周期估算的长一点,在收入无法维持支出的情况下,尽可能的减少开支,延长生存期限,只有如此,才能熬过寒冬,活下去。 (三)一堆木炭和几场雨水。猪坚强被废墟掩埋期间没有食物,唯一能够充饥的是从倾覆的阁楼上撒落一地的木炭,猪坚强在饥饿时吃了不少木炭,木炭没什么营养,但没有毒,可以充饥。吃木炭减轻了猪坚强的饥饿感,让它不至于被饥饿击倒;另外,猪圈在半山腰,震后当地下了几场大雨,有雨水渗进猪圈,所以猪没有被渴死。对于企业来说,需要注意的就是,在当前的情况下,仅仅依靠自身现金储备,可能远远不够,必须全力找寻能够充饥和解渴的“木炭”和“雨水”,通过各种途径融取资金,为度过经济危机提供尽可能多的物质保障。 其次,主观方面。强烈的求生意志是猪坚强能够生存下来的主要因素,据说,平常猪坚强一天吃的水和粮草,就有二三十公斤,而在被废墟掩埋的36天中,它依赖自身的脂肪消耗,一堆木炭,和几场雨水,度过了36天,客观的物质保障很重要,但是它强烈的求生意志,也发挥了巨大作用。对于企业来说,面对危机要有坚强的心理承受能力,和舍我其谁的强烈求生意志,正如马云所说的,“连‘猪坚强’都能活,你为什么不可以?” 新的一年,写下以上文字,算是一个美好祝愿,祝愿所有企业能够领会和学好猪坚强,安然度过这次经济危机,瘦点没关系,只要活着。(作者,陆建国)

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2009: Products I Can’t Live Without

At the beginning of each year I traditionally publish a list of my favorite startups and products. This is the fourth year I’ve done this - previous lists: 2006, 2007, 2008. You guys get to pick the winners of the Crunchies - this list is all mine.
This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work (WordPress, Delicious, Zoho, etc.), some are for fun (MySpace Music, Hulu, etc), and some are useful for both (Digg, Skype, YouTube, etc.). But I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them.

The list changes a bit from year to year, and is also getting longer (see chart). Just three products have been favorites all four years: TechMeme, Skype, WordPress. TechMeme continues to be the news aggregator I check multiple times per day to keep up on tech news. Skype is the instant messaging and VoIP platform that I use most often, and WordPress software powers all of our blogs.

I’ve added nine new products, including one gadget (which I’ve left off in the past): Animoto, Friendfeed, Hulu, iPhone 3G, MySpace Music, Pandora (which was on in previous years) Docstoc/Scribd and Yammer.

I’ve removed six products from last year’s list: Amazon Music, Amie Street, Firefox, Flickr, Netvibes, Technorati.

I still use the products I’ve removed, just not as much as in previous years. I find I’m just using Netvibes and Technorati less this year (Netvibes because Google Reader is so excellent, Technorati has fallen in favor of Google Blog Search mostly because it’s too slow and has too many internal links). I tend to upload photos to Facebook now because of the people tagging feature and since it flows well with the rest of my news feed (I use Posterous for mobile uploads); Flickr is becoming less important for me. I have moved most of my music consumption to MySpace Music, and download DRM-free MP3s from iTunes when I want to buy. Amie Street is still a great place to discover new music though, and I think their business model, which is variable pricing for music based on its popularity, is sound. Firefox is off the list as I experiment with Chrome, but I haven’t made a decision one way or the other. When Chrome launches for the Mac, I’m likely to switch.

As in past years, there are a gaggle of other great products that I use regularly but didn’t add to the list in order to keep it manageable. I also haven’t added individual iPhone apps that I use daily, even though they are nearly as important to productivity and fun as the products that did make the list. Next year I expect more than a few will be added.

Here’s the current list, in alphabetical order, of products I use every day and couldn’t live without:

800-Free-411

800-Free-411 first made the list in 2007 and it isn’t leaving any time soon. Use it to make free directory assistance calls and avoid per call charges of up to $3.50 that cell phone carriers charge. The company has taken more than 6% of the market for directory service calls in the U.S. Google, Microsoft, AT&T and others have entered the market, but Jingle Networks, the company offering the product, has a patent on the idea of pairing advertising with free directory service. Here’s a tip: add “FREE411USA” as a Skype contact and do lookups that way, too.

Animoto

Animoto, which joins the list for the first time this year, does one thing, and well: it creates slide shows from photos. Unlike all the other services on the list, I don’t use it daily. But their new iPhone application put it over the edge this year. I really like this service.

Delicious

Social bookmarking site Delicious has been on the list for three of the four years (I took a brief detour in 2007 to a competing service called Blue Dot, then switched back). Delicious 2.0 is finally stable and the Firefox add-on is the reason I keep using it. Also, they long ago switched away from the annoying del.icio.us domain name, so I don’t have to look up where the dots go every time I visit the site.

Digg

Digg has been on the list the last three years. The site remains a fun place to hang out when I have some spare time to review the news, and Digg is one of our top ten sources of traffic. Hacker News is another Digg-like news site that focuses on tech that I visit daily as well.

Facebook

I visit Facebook daily to keep up with what my 5,000 closest friends are up to. I’m not a big fan of most of the applications that have launched on Facebook, but I do use it for photos and events. Unlike last year, though, I also now use MySpace as well regularly to reach people. These are the two social networks you have to be on to keep in touch with everyone.

Friendfeed

Friendfeed, a microblogging and activity aggregating service, only officially launched in February 2008. I use the service daily, although I’m not nearly as addicted as some bloggers are to the service. But like Twitter, Friendfeed is a good place to find breaking news on a variety of topics, and it’s become a must have service.

Gmail

I’ve never been a fan of the way Gmail groups message threads, and things like tagging of messages could be improved, but the service is far and away superior to any other web mail service in terms of features (Yahoo Mail has the best user interface in my opinion). I continue to rely on Gmail as my main personal email provider. Once Gears is integrated for offline use, I may stop accessing it via IMAP.

Google Reader

Three years ago I was using Bloglines to read feeds. Then I tried NetNewsWire for a while. But Google Reader, which first launched in October 2005 as a seriously flawed product, continues to evolve and is by far the best feed reader on the market today.

Hulu

Hulu isn’t about work, it’s about watching TV and films after the work is done. I openly mocked the service for nearly a year as they fumbled around, but now here it is, on a list of sites I visit constantly. I spend more time watching Hulu than I do normal cable television.

iPhone 3G

The first gadget I’ve included over the years - the iPhone 3G, which was announced on June 9, 2008, is simply the best device I’ve ever used. Sure, it doesn’t have a physical keyboard. But I can actually browse the web with this thing, and that more than makes up for a slower typing speed. This is a beautiful thing.

MySpace Music

MySpace Music is just a couple of months old and is still very buggy, but it changed the way users think about music on a big scale. MySpace combined its millions of band/artist pages with legal and free streaming music from the labels and creating a very compelling music product. Services like LaLa have a better user experience, but they still charge for streaming. Free is the future of music.

Pandora

Pandora, an Internet radio service that creates stations based on music you like, was on the list the first two years. I still listen to it all the time, and their new iPhone application put it over the top again to get on this year’s list. Pandora was one of the first startups we covered on TechCrunch, and they recently passed 20 million registered users.

Scribd & Docstoc

We use both Docstoc and Scribd here at TechCrunch regularly. Both services let you upload office type documents (PDFs, Word docs, Powerpoint presentations, etc.) and then embed them on other sites. When there’s a lawsuit complaint or interesting PDF, we add it to one of the services and embed it in our post.

Skype

Skype Skype has been on my list every year and I expect it will stay there. It’s the most important productivity tool that I have - I’d give up email before I gave up Skype.

TechMeme

TechMeme is another four-year favorite. It is the blogosphere’s daily newspaper, and one of the sites we use most often in seeing how stories develop. I’m amazed that founder Gabe Rivera hasn’t accepted any of the many buyout offers I’ve heard he’s been floated. In December 2008 TechMeme gave up on fully automated news, which I believe changes the site for the worse.

TripIt

If you travel a lot, you are going to love TripIt, which returns to the list this year. It keeps you organized, it’s incredibly easy to use and it’s just a perfect, simple service. Read our post on TripIt to get an idea for how it works. You forward confirmation emails from flights, hotels, etc. to the service and it creates an itinerary automatically. You can then access it via a mobile device.

Twitter

Last year a lot of people still hadn’t heard about microblogging service Twitter. Now, Britney is on it and the company is turning down half-billion dollar buyout offers. I mostly access Twitter through a desktop client called Twhirl, and I check it multiple times per day.

WordPress

We continue to use WordPress open source software to power all of our blogs, and it has been on the list all four years. Their Akismet spam comment blocking service is a godsend - without it we would quite simply be overrun with spam. It catches 15,000 or more spam comments per day and auto-deletes them.

Yammer

Yammer, a spin off of a startup called Geni, is a newcomer this year. They launched at TechCrunch50 in the Fall and took the top prize. The service acts as a Twitter for businesses, letting employees send messages back and forth to subscribers. It’s way more effective than email at group communications, and we absolutely rely on it here at TechCrunch.

YouTube

YouTube has been on the list the last three years. I continue to burn time watching random videos on the site, and we use it to upload our own videos as well. Sure they sent us a Cease & Desist letter a while back, but I still love em.

Zoho

Zoho, as well as its competitor Google Docs, continues to replace Microsoft Office for most of my word processing and spreadsheet needs. The feature list is still light compared to the heavy, expensive Microsoft version, but its free and I can collaborate with others on documents. This is the future of office productivity.

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